128 TlMEHRI. 
the lot of this orchid taken home by Mr. SiEDEL. We 
understand that the plant sold very well : — 
CATTLEYA LAWRENCEANA 
(Rchb. f. New Species.) 
A DISTINCT and BEAUTIFUL NEW CATTLEYA, from 
THE RORAIMA. 
MR. J. C. STEVENS will SELL by AUCTION, at his Great 
Rooms, 38, King Street, Covent Garden, W.C., by order of Mr. 
F. Sander, on THURSDAY, March 26, at half-past 12 o'Clock 
precisely, 
The entire Importation of this most superb Cattleya. 
The consignment, brought home under the personal care of the Col- 
lector, is in exceptional order, and it has not been our fortune before to 
offer a finer, more compa6t, and altogether satisfactory lot of plants, 
and we do not hesitate to say that we have never seen such splendid 
sound pieces. They are well shaped, leaves fresh and green, and eyes 
perfectly dormant, and are the result of two years' diligent search. 
Cattleya Lawrenceana belongs to the very finest of the genus ; the 
colour of the large flower is deep, rich and warm ; the lip is flat and 
large, the lower half intensely dark and brilliant ; throat yellow, and 
often veined red. There are no poor or light-coloured varieties among 
them, and although this Cattleya varies in the markings of the inner 
lip, all are superb. It is a free-growing, free-flowering species, the 
flower-spikes on plants show up to fifteen flowers. Habit of plant is 
most compact, bulbs thick and varying in size from 6 to 15 inches. The 
leaves are in some varieties reddish in colour, in others green, and from 
6 to 9 inches long. 
On view morning of Sale, and Catalogues had. 
AUCTION ROOMS AND OFFICES, 38, KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN, 
LONDON, W.C. 
A New Guiana Avoid,— The April number of the 
" Botanical Magazine" contains a coloured figure and 
description of Dracontium f&cundum, Hook. F., t. 6808, 
— one of the section producing large, deeply cut, single 
leaves after the spathe, which is hooded and purplish in 
